All you need is Love

Thanks to Michele for these sweet tags featuring images from the "new expanded" African-American vintage photos collection! The theme is Love... and don't we all need that message these days. Michele does beautiful work.

It's February!

More Valentine sweetness from Michele Storms of Artfromthe Well.blogspot.com... Vintage couple from Lunagirl Victorian Romance.

This lovely little creation is a traditional "moo" (approximately 1.1 x 2.8 inches).

Puppy Love ATC

Some sweetness from Michele Storms! Lunagirl images for the 'handwriting' background and main photo image... beautifully combined to create her ATC. Getting ready for Valentines next month <3 p="">

Challenge Winner: Karla B

Time to announce the challenge winner for February! My random number generator has told me the lucky winner this month is Karla B of Poetic Postcards!

Everyone deserves congratulations and thanks for sharing such beautiful work. This was a fun challenge that inspired some lovely creativity.

I do want everyone to know, by the way, that the drawing is random, so everyone has a chance to win ~ and if you use a Lunagirl image I count your entry twice, for double chances to win. Just a reminder :-)

I'm off now to create a post for my March challenge. Join me bright and early tomorrow for my March theme: Spring Flowers & Birds.

LOVE Challenge Week Four (Late!)

MICHELE STORMS
Art from the Well

Sorry I'm late in posting inspiration for the fourth week of my Love challenge. I forgot to write a reminder on my planner ~ and if I don't write something down, it most likely will not get done! Seriously.

I'm glad I remembered because the DT has sent me a gorgeous collection of pieces for this last week of the challenge. Apologies, ladies, for the delay ~ these are all beautiful!

The response to this challenge theme has been great. Be sure to see the entries so far, and don't miss your chance to link up your own creation! You still have a few more days (extra day because of Leap Year, too.) Show us your LOVE!

MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad

VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad

Week Three: LOVE

VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad

Here's wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day ~ with inspiration from the Design Team, and a reminder that our theme of Love in all its wonderful forms continues throughout the month of February.

I hope to see what you create! See the entries so far, and link up your own. 

MICHELE STORMS
Art from the Well 

MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

A sweet vintage Valentine greeting to you and yours... Enjoy the day with your loved ones.
And help spread the love by joining in my LOVE challenge which continues all through February!

Enjoy this lovely pop-up card by VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad
(On the left is the outside of the card, on the right you can see the inside!)

Freebie Sweethearts for 'Love' Challenge

It's almost Valentine's Day! But my LOVE challenge for February will continue until the end of the month. And it's Leap Year so that means February 29th!

Here's an early Valentine for you ~ some vintage sweethearts cut from an old postcard. Right-click to download, and use them to create your entry in the challenge!

Second Week: LOVE challenge theme

MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

More beautiful inspiration from the Moonbeams Design Team! And there are already some lovely and fun entries in my LOVE challenge for February. Link up yours! You can enter up to three times.

MICHELE STORMS
Art from the Well

Sisters & Friends: More Love for February!

MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

Here's sweet collage postcard created by Mandy... She didn't send this specifically for the "Love" challenge, but I think it totally fits the bill! Isn't this beautiful! I love the soft colors, and the flowers and flutterbys and bee make me think of spring! (It gets closer every day...)

February Challenge Theme: LOVE

Welcome to my February challenge! 

The theme this time is LOVE, in all its wonderful guises! In February, our thoughts naturally turn to romance and Valentines ~ or maybe to some humorous "anti-Valentines" sentiments if you're single! (My youngest son is currently on this bandwagon.)

And romance, valentines, and anti-valentines are all perfect for this challenge.

But I don't want to limit this theme to only romantic love... Let's expand the theme to embrace other kinds of love as well. Love between friends, between parents and children, sisters and brothers, love of family... love for and from our furry friends... the love that inspires us to share with others and care for others, to work for compassion and kindness and fairness for others, even people we've never met... 

I don't mean to get too philosophical. If I get all Valentines and romance, I'll be happy! :-)  I just want to make sure that everyone feels free to interpret this theme however they like, to reflect what love means to you in your life. LOVE... we certainly need more of it, in every form!

I always enjoy seeing some Lunagirl images in the challenges. You'll find lots of inspiration at Lunagirl.com to help get you started... image collections by download or CD, and hundreds of digital collage sheets! A good starting point this time would be my Valentines collection, I suppose.

CHALLENGE GUIDELINES

Challenge ends at 3:00 pm CST on February 29

Any craft or medium is welcome.

ENTER UP TO THREE PIECES!

Vintage style is encouraged but not required.

Use a Lunagirl image and your entry will count twice in the drawing!

Link to this blog and to Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.

Prize: $15 credit at Lunagirl.com! Winner will be selected by random drawing.

An InLinkz Link-up

LUNAGIRL DESIGN TEAM

MICHELE STORMS
Art from the Well

Here's a tag created by Michele Storms, digital collage by Shelby Pizzarro to get the challenge started!

I'll be sharing more from the Design Team in days to come!

"Red Rose Girls" by
SHELBY PIZZARRO Sisterhood of the Muse

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, everybody!  Here is a sweet Mother's Day card created by DT member Michele Storms, featuring another little girl from Lunagirl African-American Photos CD along with some pretty flowers, soft feminine colors, lace trim and LOVE tiles!  I hope all you Moms out there have a beautiful day.
(P.S. The Vintage Mother's Day challenge continues all this week ~ link up your work!)

Love & Wings

I couldn't resist sharing this digital creation by Denise Pustelniak from her blog Thru the Looking Glass.  It's so sweet, and the jewel-toned colors are gorgeous...She created this for the Lasting Memories challenge with the theme Love plus Wings! I'm proud that she used some of my bright butterflies. Lasting Memories is a layout challenge blog... you might want to check it out.

Hot Deals for Cold Weather Crafting!

I guess everyone in the Eastern U.S. is enduring some super-cold weather!  Bundle up ~ or better yet, stay inside with hot cocoa if you can!

The Lunagirl Moonbeams DT has been sending me more lovely Vintage Winter creations, and I will get those posted to inspire you tomorrow.  When it's too cold and icy to go out, isn't that a great time for crafting?  Enter our Vintage Winter blog challenge! 

My customers are snapping up the Valentines images already, as they always do in January.  If you want an instant download, I have plenty of Valentine and romance-themed digital collage sheets, plus my new download packs of Victorian roses in various colors!

If you're in the mood for hundreds of gorgeous vintage style images, check out my craft CDs on sale almost 35% off this week. Lunagirl Victorian Romance CD and Vintage Lovers CD offer gorgeous, high-quality photos and art from my collection, restored and embellished, most not available anywhere else.  And Lunagirl Victorian Holidays Volume 2 features hundreds of Valentines plus hundreds of images for St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day and more ~ some are exclusive to me, some you've seen before but never like this!  I'm pretty proud of our Holidays collections. :-)   And just for good measure, Lunagirl Angels Fairies & Fairy Tale Art CD is on sale too.  So stop in and "get 'em while they're hot"! 

Vintage Valentines Feature Article

As Valentine's Day approaches, we invite you to visit our special feature article on Victorian Edwardian romance to see a variety of vintage valentines and romantic photos and learn a little bit about the Roman god Eros (also known as Cupid).

You'll find it all here: Lunagirl Feature: Vintage Romance

In Ancient Rome February 14 was a festival in honor of Juno, the queen of heaven and goddess of marriage. Did you know it was once believed that February 14 is the day the birds begin to find mates?

So Romantic: Vintage Lovers Edwardian era & 1920s, Victorian Romance

Lunagirl Vintage Lovers collection: 450 photos and postcards on CD features romantic couples taken from cards from the 1920s and Edwardian era.

You'll find romantic couples and wedding photos, plenty of passionate kisses, sassy flappers in fabulous fashions, Edwardian girls, dapper men, soldiers and sailors departing or returning to the women they love, even children playing at love.


"Vintage Lovers" is the companion CD to our "Victorian Romance" CD which features couples of the Victorian era in 550 images. If you want a more traditionally Victorian look in romantic photos and cards, click the picture to see!

Victorian Romance vintage photos & cards

Brand new Lunagirl CD just released!

"Victorian Romance"
Vintage images of couples, brides, kisses & sentiments of love - 550 images on CD. This collection features images from the Victorian & Edwardian eras.Charming postcards, photos & other ephemera scanned and saved as easy-to-use jpg images for your projects.




You'll find romantic couples with flowers, lovers kissing and flirting, brides & grooms & weddings, fiancées, married couples, couples at tea or table...







lovely ladies & passionate gents, women & men out for a stroll or a drive, even a special category featuring sweet pictures of children playing at love.






Many include romantic verses or greetings in French (you can of course use your image-editing software to remove these & add your own if you prefer!)





These are lovely for card making, invitations, gift tags, labels for handcrafted items. Add to your scrapbooking pages or wedding album, altered books and boxes, collage, mixed media, primitives, decoupage, ATCs...

CLICK ANY OF THE PICTURES TO SEE DETAILS & MORE SAMPLE PICTURES at Lunagirl.com.

Vintage Romance

To our regular visitors, I apologize for neglecting the blog for awhile! We have been quite busy around here. The least I can do is give you a link to our Lunagirl Feature Article on VINTAGE ROMANCE, just in time for St. Valentine's Day. It has bits of fun information about the origins of Valentines Day and its customs, and of course plenty of pretty pictures to look at!

I've been creating new Lunagirl collage sheets like crazy. You can see all the latest at http://lunagirl.com/W-Lunagirl-Collage-Sheets-NEW.htm

I think there are too many new ones to put them all here, but I do want to share a couple of favorites on the theme of Vintage Romance!

Stay tuned for Vintage Blue Flappers, and a link to our Feature Article on The Victorian Language of Flowers (Spring is around the corner!)